This site makes available various versions of lists
of children vaccinated against smallpox in the Chortitza Colony in 1809.
The vaccination lists contain the names of children who were vaccinated,
as well as their ages, their fathers' names, and the village that they
were from. The original document was written in German and may be found
on frames 52 to 83 of File
#195 of the microfilm of selected files from Odessa
Archives, Fund 6, Inventory 1. A version of the same information
but written in Russian is found in the same file on frames 97 to 108.
Most children immunized were 6 years old or younger although some were
as old as 12. The lists show a total of 393 children from 205 families
who were immunized.

While it appears that most of the younger children in the Chortitza
Colony were immunized at this time and thus appear on these lists, researchers
should note that no data is given for children from the village of Schoenwiese
and very few children are listed from the village of Chortitza. Comparison
of this data with the 1808 Chortitza Colony census data that we have
for the villages of Rosenthal, Einlage, Burwalde, and Neuendorf previously
published by Benjamin Unruh reveals that fathers and their children
were in general listed in same order as they appear in the censuses.
Some of the younger children listed in the 1808 census do not appear
in the 1809 immunization records, suggesting that the immunization records
are not a complete listing of all the young children in any of the villages.
Even though this data is incomplete it still provides us with new information
about some children born prior to 1809 not found in previously published
censuses for the Chortitza Colony.

The data from these immunization lists is available for review as a
table of the original data or as
gedcom files which may be downloaded in which the ages of the children
mentioned in the immunization lists have been converted into approximate
years of birth. In the tables of the immunization data I have attempted
to spell names exactly as they appeared in the original document.

If you have any questions about any of this data feel free to contact
me.